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චාණක්ය නීති - ඒකාදශෝऽධ්යායඃ දාතෘත්වං ප්රියවක්තෘත්වං ධීරත්වමුචිතජ්ඤතා । Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. ආත්මවර්ගං පරිත්යජ්ය පරවර්ගං සමාශ්රයේත් । He who forsakes his own community and joins another perishes as the king who embraces an unrighteous path. හස්තී ස්ථූලතනුඃ ස චාංකුශවශඃ කිං හස්තිමාත්රෝऽංකුශෝ The elephant has a huge body but is controlled by the ankusha (goad): yet, is the goad as large as the elephant? A lighted candle banishes darkness: is the candle as vast as the darkness. A mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No, he whose power prevails is really mighty; what is there in bulk? කලෞ දශසහස්රාණි හරිස්ත්යජති මේදිනීම් । In the කලියුග, after 10,000 years හරි (විෂ්ණු) will leave this earth. Water from the Ganga river leaves after 5000 years. After 2000 years, the village deity will also leave. ගෘහාසක්තස්ය නෝ විද්යා නෝ දයා මාංසභෝජිනඃ । He who is engrossed in family life will never acquire knowledge; there can be no mercy in the eater of flesh; the greedy man will not be truthful; and purity will not be found in a woman and a hunter. න දුර්ජනඃ සාධුදශාමුපෛති The wicked man will not attain sanctity even if he is instructed in different ways, and the nim tree will not become sweet even if it is sprinkled from the top to the roots with milk and ghee. අංතර්ගතමලෝ දුෂ්ටස්තීර්ථස්නානශතෛරපි । Mental dirt cannot be washed away even by one-hundred baths in the sacred waters, just as a wine pot cannot be purified even by evaporating all the wine by fire. න වේත්ති යෝ යස්ය ගුණප්රකර්ෂං It is not strange if a man reviles (Degrades) a thing of which he has no knowledge, just as a wild hunter's wife throws away the pearl that is found in the head of an elephant, and picks up a gunj(a type of seed which poor tribals wear as ornaments). යේ තු සංවත්සරං පූර්ණං නිත්යං මෞනේන භුංජතේ । He who for one year eats his meals silently (inwardly meditating upon the Lord's prasadam); attains to the heavenly planets for a thousand crore of years. ( Note: one crore equals ten million). කාමක්රෝධෞ තථා ලෝභං ස්වාදුශ‍ඍංගාරකෞතුකේ । The student (බ්රහ්මචාරි) should completely renounce the following eight things -- his lust, anger, greed, desire for sweets, sense of decorating the body, excessive curiosity, excessive sleep, and excessive endeavour for bodily maintenance. අකෘෂ්ටඵලමූලේන වනවාසරතඃ සදා । The බ්රාහ්මණ who eats roots from the earth without effort, who always lives in the forrest, one who always performs his duties with care ශ්රාද්ධා is referred to as ඍෂි or sage. ඒකාහාරේණ සංතුෂ්ටඃ ෂට්කර්මනිරතඃ සදා । He alone is a true බ්රාහ්මණ (dvija or "twice-born") who is satisfied with one meal a day, who has the six samskaras (or acts of purification such as garbhadhana, etc.) performed for him, and who cohabits with his wife only once in a month on an auspicious day after her menses. ලෞකිකේ කර්මණි රතඃ පශූනාං පරිපාලකඃ । The බ්රාහ්මණ who is engrossed in worldly affairs, brings up cows and is engaged in trade is really called a වෛශ්ය (merchant). ලාක්ෂාදිතෛලනීලීනාං කෞසුංභමධුසර්පිෂාම් । The බ්රාහ්මණ who deals in lac-die, articles, oil, indigo, silken cloth, honey, clarified butter, liquor, and flesh is called a ශූද්ර (worker). පරකාර්යවිහංතා ච දාංභිකඃ ස්වාර්ථසාධකඃ । The බ්රාහ්මණ who thwarts the doings of others, who is hypocritical, selfish, and a deceitful hater, and while speaking mildly cherishes cruelty in his heart, is called a මාර්ජාර (cat). වාපීකූපතඩාගානාමාරාමසුරවේශ්මනාම් । The බ්රාහ්මණ who destroys a pond, a well, a tank, a garden and a temple is called a ම්ලේච්ඡ (foreigner, who doesn't understand the workings of society). දේවද්රව්යං ගුරුද්රව්යං පරදාරාභිමර්ශනම් । The බ්රාහ්මණ who steals the property of the Deities and the spiritual preceptor, who cohabits with another's wife, and who maintains himself by eating anything and everything s called a චාංඩාල (an outcast). දේයං භෝජ්යධනං ධනං සුකෘතිභිර්නෝ සංචයස්තස්ය වෛ The meritorious should give away in charity all that they have in excess of their needs. By charity only Karna, Bali and King Vikramaditya survive even today. Just see the plight of the honeybees beating their legs in despair upon the earth. They are saying to themselves, "Alas! We neither enjoyed our stored-up honey nor gave it in charity, and now someone has taken it from us in an instant."
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